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a hard-riding contingent out from Aldershot and 

 the Staff College. I remember seeing Field- 

 Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood well to the front in a 

 fast run from Greywell ; and the late Sir Edward 

 Hamley, then Commandant of the Staff College, 

 was another very good man with hounds. Colonel 

 Hughes from the North Country went well and 

 straight, and so did Colonel Chadwick from the 

 Blackmore Vale. Mr John Symonds, too, of New- 

 lands, whose father did so much for the hunt, was 

 a very straight, good performer. The Hon. Mrs 

 Pigott Carleton, now Lady Dorchester, was always 

 well to the front on her handsome thoroughbred 

 Burlington, and her sister, the Hon. Mrs Fetherston- 

 haugh, was never far away. Their father. Lord 

 Dorchester, was the best fox-preserver Mr Garth 

 had on that side of the country. On the Windsor 

 side the country was kept well stocked with foxes 

 by the Countess de Morella, who was a bold good 

 rider to hounds. Miss Gertrude Pigott, on Peter, 

 was another rider who was always well with hounds ; 

 and the Hon. Robert Jocelyn was distinguished in 

 the field by his love of jumping timber, and so was 

 the late Colonel Shiffner. Mr Kingsley also hunted 

 with Mr Garth as well as with Sir John Cope. The 

 veteran sportsman John Cordrey, in his green coat 

 and brass buttons, was a familiar figure at the 

 covert-side, and no man knew the country better 

 or went straighter than he. He was always well 

 mounted, and though a heavy weight, his horses 

 knew they had to go. 



